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Thanks for the ping Moose4.

3rd Texas Cavalry Bonnie Blue flag - would love to see a picture of that. Anyone know the winning bidder?

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Thanks for the ping SB

[LeoWindhorse]

Stainless : as the 7th cavalry rode to their fate on the Little Bighorn , they stopped upon the prairie and stacked their sabers , both to reduce clatter noise and the move faster towards their prey , the encamped Sioux .
We all know they were never to retrieve these swords....
However they were recovered by follow on forces at the time .
Over a century later a US Army Col. ,that happened to be my brother’s father-in-law was tasked to cleanup and clean out an old Army post in that area . A Spec4 came to him to report the discovery of a big crate deep down in a basement and upon inspection he found that it contained many old cavalry sabers . He took responsiblity to take them to the Smithsonian in DC and sure enough these were the remainder of those same sabers left by the 7thCav. In recognition for his honor in turning them over for the national heritage the Smith presented him with 3 of the sabers . He in turn gave one to his son-in-law . It rests above his mantel today....
ps: that good Colonel was laid to rest in Arlington last week.

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http://americana.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=663&Lot_No=72107&type=prte-pr062507c

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Sorry, this link should give the hi res pic. HERE